Nutrition & Active Living

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School Aged Children (K - 12): Overview

Overview | Healthy Eating | Active Living | For Educators

The Nutrition and Active Living program provides nutrition and active living resources and services for parents, caregivers, teachers and adolescents. Areas of focus are school communities where the goal is to help promote healthy eating and active living among students, staff and families.

What's New

School Nutrition Handbook

Steps To A Healthy School Environment: School Nutrition Handbook provides information to assist schools in ensuring easy access to healthy foods and beverages. A user friendly resource for school administrators, teachers, parents and health professionals.

Healthy Choices UR Way

Healthy Choices UR Way, Vending Machine and Canteen Guidelines

While most foods fit in a healthy diet, not all snacks are created equal. Foods and beverages that help sustain learning and promote healthy growth and development deserve a prominent place in our environments. Providing affordable and accessible healthy options in school vending machines makes the healthy choice the easiest choice.

Healthy Bits & Bites School Newsletter

Presentations

Nutrition Power Play

Nutrition Power Play (powerpoint) **Tip (to save this protected document for future use as a presentation: click once on link and click on "save" in dialogue box rather than "open").

The purpose of this presentation is to highlight the foods and fluids to consume in order to optimize sport performance.

Topics in this presentation include the following:

Everyday healthy eating
Different types of fuel
How to fuel up before, during, and after exercise
Simple vs. complex sugars
Eating on the go
Keeping hydrated

Please share this presentation with coaches or gym teachers.




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